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Ya Ha Tinda : a home place, celebrating 100 years of the Canadian government's only working horse ranch / Kathy Calvert.
- Title
- Ya Ha Tinda : a home place, celebrating 100 years of the Canadian government's only working horse ranch / Kathy Calvert.
- Author
- Calvert, Katherine M., 1947-
- Publication
- Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books, ©2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F1078 .C35 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 190 pages : illustrations (some color), color map; 23 cm
- Summary
- "An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. The story of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution, with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people's use of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape. So important is this small footprint, that it has been the source of a constant struggle for control between governments and special interest groups since the early 1900s, when the Brewster Brothers Transfer Company first obtained a grazing lease in the area for raising and breaking horses for their guiding and outfitting business in Banff and Lake Louise. This unique book covers the 100 years since the inception of the ranch: its challenges to survive intact to the 2017 centennial celebration and the stories of the men and women who worked and survived on the spread as they fought the elements and the politics to keep it as a "home place" for both the warden service and Parks Canada."--
- Subject
- Parks Canada > History
- Parcs Canada > Histoire
- Parks Canada
- Ranches > Banff National Park > History
- Ranching > Banff National Park > History
- Ranch life > Banff National Park > History
- Horse farms > Banff National Park > History
- Ranchs > Parc national de Banff > Histoire
- Ranching > Parc national de Banff > Histoire
- Vie au ranch > Parc national de Banff > Histoire
- Haras > Parc national de Banff > Histoire
- Horse farms
- Ranch life
- Ranches
- Ranching
- Ya Ha Tinda Ranch (Alta.) > History
- Ranch Ya Ha Tinda (Alb.) > Histoire
- Alberta > Ya Ha Tinda Ranch
- Alberta > Banff National Park
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Discovery -- ch. 2 The Golden Years -- ch. 3 An Uncertain Future -- ch. 4 Some Degree of Settlement -- ch. 5 Resolution to an Elusive Future -- ch. 6 The Shifting Scene.
- ISBN
- 9781771602280
- 1771602287
- 9781771602297
- 1771602295
- LCCN
- 2017479663
- OCLC
- 982652745
- SCSB-10673786
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library